Unit Test for .NET 5 Windows Forms?

Question

I recently converted a Windows Forms solution/project to .NET 5 using the try-convert application. The application builds and runs just fine. However, I tried adding a unit test project to the solution. In Solution Explorer, when I go into the unit test project Dependencies node and try to add a reference to the project I wish to test, it doesn't seem to work. The referenced project shows up with a yellow warning symbol and if I try to rebuild the solution, there are errors that show up in the unit test project saying the project I am referencing is not compatible with the unit test project. Has unit testing in Visual Studio 2019 not yet caught up to being compatible with .NET 5 Windows Forms projects? Any ideas about this problem?

Answer 1

A decent alternative to what you are doing now but make a project template. Templates can be test project, class projects etc.

• Create a new project e.g. test project
• Alter the project file alter the project file (as you are doing now) and if using C# 9 use this
• From Visual Studio's menu select Project,
• Select Export Template
• Follow the prompts to export a project
• Select the project
• Fill in the default name for a project
• Fill in a description
• Finish up
• Restart Visual Studio

The following is one of my .NET 5/C# templates (works no different for a test project)
Type in the name of the template e.g. my template for a class project for .NET 5 is PayneClassProject

Give a name for the project, done,